HORSEY, Justice:
The underlying issue in this postconviction relief appeal is whether a death-qualified jury is necessarily conviction prone simply because the conviction was rendered in a trial occurring under a mandatory death penalty statute later declared to be unconstitutional.
In 1976, the defendant, Sterling Hobbs, in a trial by jury in Superior Court with three other defendants, including Clarence Hooks, was convicted of First Degree Murder, First...
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